* You will normally spend a whole year in placement. For this year you will be charged a reduced fee of £1800.
Learn to create and analyse innovative and extraordinary event experiences, which produce powerful, inspiring and far-reaching impacts for both the individual and wider audiences around the world. This course is taught at The UK Centre for Events Management. The centre has a global reputation for events management education, international research and for supporting a generation of alumni working all over the world in a wide range of careers since 1996.
Rooted in the creative industries and blended with exciting and contemporary event-related research, this course will teach you how to captivate audiences by delivering interactive and meaningful event experiences that make you stand out as a leader in your field. From festival sites to corporate boardrooms, pop-up food markets to international film festivals, and from protest marches to cultural celebrations, you will learn the art of developing live event content at the cutting-edge of the events management world.
This course will draw on a number of different subjects, insights and approaches. These psychological, socio-cultural and political perspectives will allow you to challenge and examine a variety of theories and case studies related to the creative industries. You will explore experiential marketing and audience engagement strategies to corporate communications and discover how best to secure funding for your events.
Immersed in practice and designed with industry partners, this course will also teach you to challenge conventional modes of working and develop creative strategies, which will help you find your role in this exciting industry.
If you like creative places and people, are curious and open minded, focused and opinionated, and have a strong, creative and cultural interest in events, this course is for you. Whether you are just starting out on your journey into events or are already working in the industry, we will help set you up to deliver memorable experiences with confidence.
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Year 1
Design Thinking
Creative Event Studies
Engaging Audiences
Event Planning
Events in Society
Professional Event Practice 1
Year 2
Content Design
Event Law & Business Administration
Live Event
Managing Your Career
OPTION MODULES MAY INCLUDE:
Celebration, Ritual & Culture
Corporate Events & Hospitality
Creative Entrepreneurship
Event Security & Crowd Management
Festival Management
Public Relations & Events
Sport Media & Culture
Sandwich Year
This course offers the opportunity to take a ‘sandwich’ year – a year of paid employment in industry which will build your skills and experience. This is usually taken between the second and third year of your degree, typically making your course four years in total.
Students who choose the sandwich route find it helps with both their studies and getting a job after graduation. It can build your confidence, contacts, and of course your CV. Leeds Beckett advertise lots of placement opportunities and provide support in helping you find the right placement for you.
Year 3
Creative Communications
Event Futures
Governance, Policy and Event Power
Major Creative Project
OPTION MODULES MAY INCLUDE:
Business Event Production
Event and Dissent
Innovative Fundraising
Managing Risk for Major Events
Policy and Politics of Sports Events
Sponsorship in Events
Understanding Partnership
Pre-Sessional Courses
Improve your English language before starting your chosen degree. It is designed for international and EU students who already hold a conditional offer for an undergraduate or postgraduate course. We have three entry points to the course depending on your level of English.
Employers and organisations often state that creativity is a key attribute of the people they want to employ. This degree will give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to work innovatively and strategically to make you and your organisation stand out.
Job roles could include designing and programming content for an organisation, agency or for yourself. You could work in experiential marketing, festival and event production, or you could be planning and implementing cultural, charitable or civic events for local authorities or private organisations.
Graduates could also go on to work internationally, delivering bespoke and dynamic event experiences across the globe, such as conferences, private events, ceremonies and interactive and experiential brand activations.
Festival/creative director
Live event producer
Customer experience manager
Venue and/or site manager
Health Insurance_fee:£300/year
